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Dr Siân Robyns
@drsian.bsky.social
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PhD Literary Translation Studies; freelance editor; reader; occasional writer; translator, A Tale of Love/ Conte de l'amour bifrons by Linda Lê (Mākaro Press); knitter, mad, mad knitter.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 7h
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 10h
It was just right for today. And nice to be reminded that keeping things simple can be the best strategy.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 10h
#kai Dinner: it would have been much fancier, but I felt a touch of the hangries coming on… Chicken livers and eggplant in a teriyaki marinade, served with quinoa and grilled asparagus and a reduction of the remaining marinade with splashes of beef stock and Shao Xing cooking wine.
A very brown dinner plate: eggplant and chicken livers over quinoa and asparagus.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 17h
Delicious! But sadly, not quite as sustaining as my usual savoury breakfasts.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 20h
#kai Bircher-style muesli with blueberries, apple, maple syrup and black tahini. Breakfast of champions of a certain age.
A deep bowl holds a serving of creamy muesli blobbed with black tahini and edged with apple slices. Also visible: a pool of blueberry juice and trickles of maple syrup. The bowl’s rim is decorated either a band of forget-me-nots and butterflies.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 20h
Penblwydd hapus! 🎉🎂🥳
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1d
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Puzzle #851
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1d
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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 1d
If Nicola Willis thinks we “shouldnt be so precious that we can’t use metaphorical speech” can we go back to why Chlöe Swarbrick was punished so heavily for her comments on the government’s spinelessness?
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 2d
The Govt wants to cut Health NZ staff working on alcohol harm & end its research & social marketing campaigns. Sixty five organisations have signed an open letter to the PM, calling for alcohol industry to be excluded from policy making.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #alcohol #Health #PublicHealth
Cartoon. Title: “Sponsored by the Alcohol Lobby”. Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and Assoc Justice Minister Nicole McKee, drinking together. McKee hands her beer to Doocey and says, “Hold my beer” “I’m going to sort out these Public Health boffins. Lower right it says, “Govt ignores expert advice on alcohol”
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 2d
#nzpol Local Body Election voting deadline is looming. Don't let bad weather/apathy win. Please get out and vote and remember to support retaining Māori wards. Don't let the racists win. 🫶💪
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A.J. Ponder @ponderbooks.com · 2d
11 October 2025 at 12 noon Election day – voting closes midday

- it's too late for mail so pop your vote directly into one of the orange voting boxes
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 11d
Postcards from Wellington, Aotearoa NZ, near Cuba St.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 2d
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 2d
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 2d
Wow!
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 2d
He was a great cat.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
It looks like a Noro yarn!
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
And a PSA: if you too find massaging kale a rather distasteful experience, you’ll be pleased to hear that tossing it with a little olive oil and a sprinkle of salt and bashing it with a wooden spoon works just as well. #kai
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
#kai Dinner – Operation Eat All The Veg continues. The Oh She Glows’ detox salad (cauliflower, broccoli, carrot, sunflower seeds, currants, kale, lots of parsley and lots of lemon) with brined and air-fried chicken breast, kūmara and NZ yam/oca. And more avocado because it’s also avocado week.
Dinner as described in post.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
#pukapuka Finished this last night and sat staring into space for ten minutes, consumed by sadness for a little boy who just wanted to feel safe.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 8d
#pukapuka Today’s reading and oof, but Hoey writes some heartbreaking sentences.
‘At the time, before I knew that some people smash holes in their life on purpose, I thought Dad just needed somewhere to store his words.’
The cover of Dominic Hoey’s novel 1985 A black and white photo of Crummer Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland. The title is rendered in a spacies game typeface in a bright grassy green.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
And then smiled evilly, I hope.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
#nzpol Did the deed. Make sure you do!
An orange envelope containing local authority voting papers is being dropped into the ‘postal slot’ of an official orange ballot wheelie bin.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
#kai Lunch – the OMG-it’s-a-veggie-box-week-special-panic-salad: kūmara, cauliflower, broccolini, spinach, edamame and avocado, all daubed either tahini, chilli crisp and lemon.
Salad composed of listed ingredients. Lots of different greens with chunks of red-skinned kūmara and smears of chilli crisp.
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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d
Oh me too !
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